Ravana Bhashya Of Rig Veda

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Havana s Commentary on the lily Veda.

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Havana's Commentary on the Rig He da, by F itz-Edward Hall,

Esquire, D. C. L.

To the Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

Bombay, April 11, 1SG2

Sir, —Accompanying this note I send, for the Journal, some ex¬
tracts from a commentary on the Rig-veda , by one Havana. Time
fails me to put into presentable shape for the press a translation of
them, and remarks thereon, whieh I had hoped to communicate with
the Sanskrit.

The extracts are contained in the ParamArtha-prapa , a volume of
scholia, by Surya Pandit, on the Bhagavad-gltd , Some aecount of
Surya, who lived in the first half of the sixteenth century, will bo
found in my Contribution towards an Index to the Bibliography of
the Indian Philosophical Systems , pp. 110, 120.*' I have indicated
numerically, by mandala , sulcta , and rich, the passages of tho Rig-
veda which are expounded.

That a Havana wrote annotations on some portion of the Veda, is
hinted by MhUari. See the Oraha-laghava, &c., Calcutta edition,
p. 5. At Ajmere, at Gwalior, and elsewhere, pandits have, again and
again, assured me of their having seen, and even of their having
possessed, the whole of Havana’s commentaries on the Rig-veda and
Yaj ur-veda. And I hesitate to eon elude, that herein they were cre-
tizing; as I am unable to eoneeivo why they should have wished to
deceive me.

On the authority of the BJidva-prahts’a, by Bhava Mis'ra, son of
Lata k an a Mis'ra, some Havana or other eomposed a Kumdra-tantra.
A work of like title, Bhava alleges, is ascribed to Sanatkumara.

Your obedient servant,

Fitz-Edward Hall.

* Tito extracts, now given, were originally printed in a preface to this work
which was subsequently cancelled.

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